The ABPS Awards Committee is very pleased to announce that the 2012 Congress Medal has been awarded to:
Phil Kenton FRPSL
Nominated by John Baron
The Congress Medal was inaugurated in 1959 at the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain held at Torquay and the first recipient was Wilfred Haworth, a well known philatelist at that time.
This prestigious Medal, together with a lapel pin, is presented to just one person each year at the annual ABPS Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in recognition of dedication and voluntary service to British philately at National level.
Among some of the recipients, now deceased were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Green, the only husband and wife to win the medal, in 1962 and 1963, Fred Myers in 1966 who daughters Jean Wood and Susan Moore attend Congress regularly, Jean herself having been awarded the medal in 2007, the only Father and Daughter to be presented with the award. Mrs. Kay Goodman, a keen worker with youth philately, and who has a lecture at Congress named after her won the Congress Medal in 1976.
The senior holder of the Medal is John Field, son of the famous air mail philatelic dealer of Sutton Coldfield, and he was awarded it in 1979, followed by Bernard Lucas in 1982. Other holders are:- Neil Russell, Richard Payne, George Gibson, Richard West, Pat Rothnie, Susan Oliver, Brian Asquith, Margaret Morris, Brian Sole, Peter Chantry, John Hammonds, Alan Griffiths, Kenneth Norris, Jean Wood and Robert Johnson.
Chairmen of the Awards Committee have been Capt B Rogers-Tillstone, G W Dalton, R F W Sheraton, K F Chapman, L Gilbert-Lodge, B Leslie Barker, Neil Russell, Margaret Morris,David Beech, Alan Wood and at the present time Susan Oliver.
The full list of Congress Medal winners is below: An asterisk signifies decease
